Sunday, June 29, 2014

England,
Canada, Australia and many other countries are led politically by “Prime
Ministers” to the Queen. In fact she is
the official head of 123 commonwealth countries. America, Russia, and other countries,
however, have a “President” and “Vice-President.” Usually corporations have Presidents and
Vice-Presidents. What does this mean? The
US Presidents rule from the “White House.”
The Russian Presidents also rule from the White House. The Jesuits, a large force behind the
Illuminati, have their own White House as well.
England is ruled from “Whitehall.”

"The United States government is being ruled from the ‘White
House,’ the government of England is being ruled from what is called
‘Whitehall,’ and Whitehall, like our White House, is the symbol of power
because the hall is like the Masonic hall, the lodge hall, the union hall.” -Jordan Maxwell, “Matrix of Power”

"For those who think America controls the roost it
would do well to consider that the Queen of England is still the official head
of Commonwealth (123 countries) and the official monarch of Australia and
Canada along with the United Kingdom ... add to that the fact that all Bush Sr.
got for his two terms as president of USA is a mere knighthood of the British
Empire." -Prash Trivedi

The
original 13 colonies were actually called companies. Military units are also called
companies. We sing patriotic songs like
“the Star-Spangled Banner” but a banner is a corporate advertisement, not a
flag. You surrender with a white flag,
no colors. When you get mad you show
your true colors. If you just won
independence in a bloody revolution with Britain would you choose the same
three colors for your new US flag? Why
does “every heart ring true for the red, white, and blue?” What about the gold-fringed flag used by the
military, hung at all courts, schools, and government buildings? It all has to do with the British Maritime
Admiralty Law of Flags.

“This is also known as British Maritime (military) Law and
this is why the American flag always has a gold fringe when displayed in the
courts of the United States. You find the same in government buildings and
federally funded schools. The gold fringe is a legal symbol indicating that the
court is sitting under British Maritime Law and the Uniform Commercial Code -
military and merchant law not common or constitutional law, under the Admiralty
Law of Flags, the flag displayed gives notice of the law under which the ship
(in this case the court) is regulated. Anyone entering that ship (court)
accepts by doing so that they are submitting to the law indicated by that flag.
Judges refuse to replace the flag with one without a fringe when asked by
defendants who know the score because that changes the law under which the
court is sitting. If you appear in a court with a gold fringed flag your
constitutional rights are suspended and you are being tried under British
Maritime (military /merchant) Law.”
-David Icke, “Tales from the Time Loop”

International
Maritime Admiralty law, the law of the high seas, began in Sumeria, was
perfected in Rome and continues to this day.
Jordan Maxwell has explained that the way we trade commerce today is
modeled after the Masons’/Templar Knights’ 1000 year old system. Notice how regardless of whether you send a
product by air, water, or land - you “ship” it.
The ship pulls into its “berth” and ties to the “dock.” The Captain has to provide the port
authorities with a “certificate of manifest” declaring the products he has
brought. Through a legal loophole the
royals have created, US citizens are considered property of the queen under
British Maritime law. Since we are born
of our mother’s water, from her “birth canal,” we are thereby a maritime
product, a “shipped” commodity. Our
mothers were delivering a product under maritime law and that’s why we are born
in a “delivery room.” That’s why the
“doc” signs your “berth” certificate, your “certificate of manifest.” You’re kept in the Maternity “Ward.” Why a ward?
No other hospital areas are called wards. Prisons have wards and wardens.

The
United States Corporation came about just after the civil war. The Act of 1871 was passed by congress
creating a separate form of government for DC, essentially turning it into a
corporation. It was decided that
employees would be called “citizens.” So
when you say in court or on paper, that you are a citizen of the United States,
you are not a free American, but an employee of US Inc. When you get a fine, a ticket, a bill, or get
sued, you must sign in all capital letters.
When you die your Masonic tombstone by law will have all capital letters
to show their employee has died. The
entity that is your name in all caps is your maritime admiralty product
code. Upper and lower case legally
represents you, your body.

“The Uniform Commercial Code was approved by the American
Bar Association, which is a franchise, a subordinate branch, of the British
legal system and its hierarchy based in London's Temple Bar (named after the
Illuminati Knights Templar secret society). As I have been writing for many
years, the power that controls America is based in Britain and Europe because
that is where the power is located that owns the United States Corporation. By
the way, if you think it is strange that a court on dry land could be administered
under Maritime Law, look at US Code, Title 18 B 7. It says that Admiralty
Jurisdiction is applicable in the following locations: (1) the high seas; (2)
any American ship; (3) any lands reserved or acquired for the use of the United
States, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction thereof, or any
place purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States by consent of the
legislature of the state. In other words, mainland America. All this is founded
on Roman law because the Illuminati have been playing this same game throughout
the centuries wherever they have gone. The major politicians know that this is
how things are and so do the government administrators, judges, lawyers and
insider 'journalists'. Those who realize
what is happening and ask the court for the name of the true creditor or
recipients of the fines imposed by the 'legal system' are always refused this
information by the judge. The true creditors in such cases, and the ultimate
recipient of the fines, are the bankers to which the corporation 'country' is
bankrupt.” -David Icke, “Tales from the Time Loop”

Lawyers
or “barristers” have to take the Bar Association “bar” exam just as alcoholics
go to the “bar,” sugar-junkies eat candy “bars,” and gamblers hope to get 3
“bars” on the slot machine. These all
derive from the Templar’s turn of the 13th century “Temple Bar” in
England. Originally the Temple Bar was
literally just a bar or chain between two posts next to the Temple law
courts. This soon became a huge stone
gate and there were eventually eight of these gates built so the elites could
restrict/control trade within the city of London. They were taken down during 19th
century, but then each stone was numbered and kept in storage until 2004 when
they just re-built the Temple Bar in London.

“The United States corporation was created behind the screen
of a 'Federal Government' when, after the manufactured 'victory' in the
American War of 'Independence', the British colonies exchanged overt
dictatorship from London with the far more effective covert dictatorship that
has been in place ever since. In effect, the Virginia Company, the corporation
headed by the British Crown that controlled the 'former' colonies, simply
changed its name to the United States and other related pseudonyms. These
include the US, USA, United States of America, Washington DC, District of
Columbia, Federal Government and 'Feds'. The United States Corporation is based
in the District of Columbia and the current president of the corporation is a
man called George W. Bush. He is not the president of the people or the country
as they are led to believe, that's just the smokescreen. This means that Bush
launched a 'war on terrorism' on behalf of a private corporation to further the
goals of that corporation. It had nothing to do with' America' or 'Americans'
because these are very different legal entities. It is the United States
Corporation that owns the United States military and everything else that comes
under the term 'federal'. This includes the Federal Reserve, the 'central bank'
of the United States, which is, in reality, a private bank owned by controlling
stockholders (and controllers of the US Corporation) that are not even
American. This is the bank from which
the United States Corporation borrows 'money'.” -David Icke, “Tales from the Time Loop”

“If you notice on the bottom of your birth certificate it
says Department of Commerce. It is a
property of the Department of Commerce because you are nothing more than a
piece of commercial material. That’s why
if you’re out of work you don’t go to the unemployment office, you go to the
Office of Human Resources, because you’re just a human resource.” -Jordan Maxwell, 1990 Slideshow
Presentation on Hidden Symbols

The
Judge sits on the bench for the bank.
Banks are on both sides of a river.
A river bank directs the flow of the current/sea - the currency, the
cash flow. The current-sea is
“deposited” from bank to bank down the river.
We’re just “consumers” to advertise to, just “human resources” to be
used up like batteries, and they are the “social engineers,” molding us
“useless eaters” into wage slavery.

Monday, June 23, 2014

The numbers 7, 77, and 777 are considered lucky by both the Brotherhood and the general public. Triple Lucky 7’s, are used in slot machines for their mystical quality. 7-11 the convenience store encodes 7x11 = 77. The G7 summit (G = 7th letter) is numerologically 77. K and G Clothing stores as well (KG = 11x7 = 77). American Eagle is circa 1977 and includes the 77 on many clothes. Apollo 11 launched in the 7th month making 77. X-Box has World Soccer 7 and the Winning 11. The Pentagon is located on the 77th degree longitude and was supposedly hit by Flight 77 on 9/11. Flight 175 (1+7+5 = 13) even struck the South Tower at the 77th floor!

“Hear my voice: ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.” -Genesis, 4:23-4

Here we have the biblical root of this sacred number. The biblical Lamech was a descendant of Cain, father of Tubal-Cain, ancestor of Hiram Abiff, the first murderer, and an important Masonic hero. Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, “If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.” This resonates 7, 11, and 77 because Lamech’s revenge of 77 is 11 times Cain’s 7.

US Highway 77 is the site of many interesting happenstances that mark the “revenge of Lamech” theme as well. JFK was assassinated in Dallas near Highway 77. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Oklahoma in Guthrie is along US 77. Timothy McVeigh rented a Ryder truck on 77 and was taken to a country jail along 77 after his arrest. Both the Waco massacre and Oklahoma City bombing were on Highway 77. Not only that, they both occurred the same day: April 19th, 1993 for Waco, April 19th, 1995 for Oklahoma City, then on April 19th, 2004 was the Chicago Sears tower bombing attempt. Exactly 444 days after Sears Tower, on 7/7/2005 (2+5 = 7 which makes 777) were the London underground bombings. 777 + 444 = 11:11, a very well-known mystical number, which like 7 and 77 is associated with the revenge of Lamech.

“Aleister Crowley believed Pan to be the Wizard of Oz, and attributed to him the number 77. The Z within the circle literally ‘spells’ out Oz, and the letter Z itself is made up of two 7s, one right side up and the other upside down (just look at the old Zellers logo).” -Jake Kotze, “The Brave New World Order"

So Oz resonates 77 due to “Z” being made of two 7s. There is the Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz movies, Oz Magazine, Oprah’s “Dr. Oz,” and the Oz HBO show. The abbreviation for ounces is Oz even though there is no “Z” in the word, so Oz (77) lines the grocery store shelves and products. Zellers uses the Z inside an O logo and even spells out the “77” clearly. ON is the Egyptian Sun God and word for light. Dr. NO was the first 007 movie starring 33rd degree Mason Sean Connery who also starred in Zardoz (as in the Wi-Zard of OZ).

Boeing made a 707 plane and still continues the 7x7 line of planes today. When you sleep and “get some Z’s” you’re also getting some 77s. The word Zoo, meaning a place where animals are caged and observed, interestingly resonates 77. Also the word Zodiac encodes not only Oz (77) but a much deeper numerological secret. If you change the letter order of Zodiac to Cadoiz, an interesting numerological “coincidence” is revealed: C=3, A=1, D=4, O=15, I=9, Z=26. 3.1415926 - The first 8 digits of Pi are encoded in Zodiac.

Another more occult interpretation of 77 is 7x7 = 49. Many Buddhists believe, as written in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, that the soul takes 49 days between death and rebirth in the reincarnation process. Friends or family are supposed to read the Book of the Dead to the recently deceased for 49 days. Traditional Chinese funerals also last 49 days. Amazingly, it is also 49 days from conception when an embryo undergoes major changes to become a fetus. At 49 days, two very important things happen: (1) the newly formed pineal gland produces a giant spurt of DMT and (2) the gender of the baby is decided. Could this be the moment of reincarnation? Rene
Descartes and many others believed the pineal gland, the eye in the
pyramid, to be the seat of the soul, where the immaterial soul interacts
with the material body.

The pineal gland is the only asymmetrical organ in our heads, lying at the perfect geometric center of the brain. Every night our pineal glands produce small amounts of DMT tripping us out into various dream-states
Hence getting some Z’s, and American Dreamz, dreams with a Z featuring
MM Mandy Moore. The only other times this entheogen is naturally released is at the moment of death and the moment of Tibetan Buddhist rebirth, 49 days later. There is a movie called Ladder 49 and a band Br5-49. Bob Dylan, a suspected Mason, sang a song called “Days of 49” with lyrics like, “how oft’times I repine (like the “pine”-al gland and “re”incarnation) for the days of old when we dug up gold in the days of 49.” Dylan was also featured in “Oz” Magazine and sang “7 Curses,” “7 Days,” and “Death is Not the End.”

The Masonic Rolling “Stones” wrote “Highway 49” singing, “Out on the Highway 49 I have walked till I am dead” again resonating this theme. The
band “Stiff Little Fingers” wrote a song called “Gate 49” singing, “I
find that doorway in my mind when I want to be with you I just walk
through gate 49.” Their only other song with a number is “Johnny 7.” The “77s” sing a song called “Sevens” beginning, “Did you know my eyes were blue? The day we met my heart was too. Now you say the color’s changed. You’re staring down a darker shade.” Their only other songs with colors are all the same: Blue Sky, Dave’s Blues, Perfect Blues, and Wild Blue. Do you see pattern developing? Blank 77 sings Spirit of ’77. Other bands include Attaque 77, Linea 77, Breed 77, Kolapso 77, Charta 77, Resistance 77. Nada Surf sings “Blizzard of ‘77” with lyrics about “tripping in 7-11” as in a DMT trip, perhaps?

Ozzy Osbourne sang the album “Blizzard of Ozz” and changed the S in Osbourne to a Z like Ozbourne. Hence we can say that “Os” also resonates the “Oz/77” theme as well. This is affirmed in the TV series “L-OS-T” which has an episode named “Enter
77” and Oz-resonant “The Man Behind the Curtain” about a man (Ben) who
claims he arrived on the island via hot air balloon, just like the
Wizard of Oz. There were 48 survivors of the crash plus Claire’s baby or the French woman makes 49. Also in the Episode “Numbers” we see the countdown just as it hits 49. When the show starts the word “Lost” floats toward the viewer cutting off the L and T leaving just the OS. “Lost” is full of occult numerology, symbology, and myths worthy of its own chapter. J.J. Abrams, the writer of Lost is now writing the movie Star Trek “Lost” Frontier.

In Disney’s “Shark Tale” Will Smith voices the main character “OS-car.” At
the start of the movie, Oscar wears a hat with a big “O” right over his
third-eye chakra, and for most of the movie Oscar has a black-eye which
is blue. Throughout the whole movie Oscar symbolically doubles as a third-eye to De Niro’s shark character as hinted at by the poster. Similarly, in “Return to Oz” Dorothy wears a headband with a Z inside an O right over her third-eye point once again showing this occult secret. Actually
this is only kept secret from westerners, Hindu women wearing Bindi’s
on their forehead’s are well aware of their spiritual significance in
relation to the third-eye.

The actress Robin Tunney is used repeatedly by the Masons in Hollywood to resonate this OZ theme. Three times in her movie career she has played characters named “Zoe” which is of course, OZ backwards. In the movie “Cherish” Tunney plays a character named Zoe and the movie poster has a series of O’s rippling out from her foot. In the poster for the movie “Zodiac” notice how the line goes through the O and right up to Robin Tunnney’s name. She is also in the HBO-OZ-resonating “Prison Break” series.

OSmium is the 76th element. If
you want to take these synchronicities to the limit, then it’s quite
interesting to note that Lee Harvey OS-wald was killed by CIA agent Jack
Ruby, like Ruby Slippers from OZ. The precursor to the CIA was called the OSS and Marylin Manson (MM) sings the song (KK) King-Kill 33 all about Lee Harvey OSwald. How deep does the rabbit-hole go? The
Pentagon’s ground-breaking ceremony was on Sept. 11th, 1941, exactly 60
years to the day Flight 77 crashed into it. The Pentagon was designed
by OTO priest Jack Parsons, who was friends with fellow OTO head
Aleister Crowley. Crowley attributed, Pan the goat deity, with the
number 77.

So Pan the goat (the all-creator/all-destroyer) is 77. Bush
Jr. just happened to be at an elementary school photo-op reading a book
called “My Pet Goat” while the second plane hit the 77th floor of the
South tower and Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 77 degrees longitude.
Overlooking all this stood the Freemasonic Statue of Liberty on an
11-pointed star pedestal wearing a 7-pointed crown (7x11 = 77). And in
the old Roman 10-month calendar where "Sept"ember was the 7th month,
"Oct"ober the 8th month etc. , "Sept"ember 11th also resonates as 7x11.
If all that isn’t eerie enough, a similar numerological “coincidence”
occurred during the TWA Flight 800 disaster:

“July
17, 1996. TWA 800 took off from JFK Airport on Wednesday evening, July
17, 1996, and exploded a few minutes later over the Atlantic Ocean, near
Long Island. Swiss Air 111 took off from the same airport on Wednesday
evening, 9/2 (9+2=11) 1998, and went down in
flames into the Atlantic Ocean off the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The number of weeks between these two accidents is exactly 111, the
same as the Swiss Air flight number. This is a very clear hoof print of
the Clandestine Luciferian Masons (CLuMs) who had sabotaged both
airliners. TWA 800 and Swiss Air 111: the time between them is 111
weeks, or 777 days. The number 777 contains the mark of the revenge of
Cain (7) and the mark of the revenge of Lamech (77).” -Robert
Howard, “Destruction of the Trade Centers: Occult Symbolism Indicates
Enemies Within our own Government"

Both satellite surveillance and hundreds of
eyewitnesses along the Long Island coastline (whom the FBI never
interviewed) clearly saw TWA Flight 800 shot by a missile fired from a
small boat which then sped away.

“The
divine legacy of ‘7’ is also found in the otherwise unexplained origin
of the seven days of the week. Most of us take the 7-day week for
granted and assume it is a natural cycle. In actual fact, it is not a
fixed cycle at all, and scientists have struggled for years to explain
why this tradition should have originated. Theologians would claim that
the answer lies in the Biblical seven days of creation, but the origin
of the Biblical ‘days’ is almost certainly the seven tablets on which
the Enuma Elish was written. This is evident from the contrast between
the first six Babylonian tablets describing Marduk’s acts of creation
and the seventh tablet which is dedicated to a general exaltation of the
god (and thus a parallel to the Biblical seventh day when God rested)
... But what is the ultimate origin of the sacred number ‘7’? Why did
the Babylonians write their creation epic on seven tablets? Whilst the
seven stars of the Pleiades may ultimately be significant, Zecharia
Sitchin has put forward a very interesting alternative theory, based on a
literal acceptance of the ancient
texts. Having already identified the association of twelve gods with
twelve planets, he was intrigued by continual references to the god
Enlil, known as the Chief God of the Earth, but also somewhat
cryptically as ‘Lord of 7’. This gave Sitchin the idea that Earth was
somehow the seventh planet, and he quickly realized that Earth was
indeed the seventh planet encountered by the gods as they traveled from
Nibiru into the heart of the Solar System.” -Alan F. Alford, “Gods of the New Millennium – The Shattering Truth of Human Origins” 81

Earth
was the 7th planet in the Sumerian rendering as their alien progenitors
allegedly came from another system and counted Pluto as the first
planet instead of Mercury. There are 7 days in a week, 7 days in the
Judeo-Christian creation myth, and 7 Enuma Elish tablets describing
Babylonian creation. There is 7-Up, Seagrams 7, The 7 spheres, 7th
heaven, 7 hathors, 7 chakras, the 7 seals, and 7 daughters of Atlas who
guard the golden apples of immortality. Brad Pitt (Brad = 2+18+1+4 =
25, 2+5 = 7, Pitt = 16+9+2+0+2+0 = 29, 2+9 = 11) starred in the movies
Se7en, 7 Years in Tibet, and Oceans 11 (Note: he also starred in Less
than Zero, 12 monkeys, Oceans 12 and 13, which makes a total of 7
numerologically significant movies to date).

“The
numbers 7 and 40 are also code numbers in the Bible and the mysteries.
So in the Bible we have seven spirits of God, the seven churches of
Asia, seven golden candlesticks, seven stars, seven lamps of fire, seven
seals, seven trumpets, seven angels, seven thunders and the red dragon
in Revelation with seven heads and seven crowns. The story of Jericho
has Joshua marching his army around the city for seven days, accompanied
by seven priests carrying seven trumpets. On the seventh day they
circled Jericho seven times and the walls came tumbling down. In the
story of Noah, seven pairs of each animal go into the ark and seven
pairs of each type of bird. There are seven days between the prediction
of the deluge and the rain and seven days between the sending of the
doves. The ark comes to rest on the 17th day of the seventh month, Noah
leaves the ark on the 27th day, and after the flood he begins his
seventh century.” -David Icke, “The Biggest Secret” (83)

Monday, June 16, 2014

American medical doctor
and psychiatrist, Rick Strassman, has been working diligently to improve
our understanding of entheogens, specifically dimethyltryptamine or DMT.In 1990 Dr. Strassman broke a 20 year
prohibition on psychedelic experiments in America when he began his work giving
intravenous doses of the world’s strongest psychedelic to patients and
volunteers.Like Dr. Grof’s LSD subjects, Dr. Strassman’s DMT subjects found the experience to be
overwhelmingly positive with a myriad of long-term benefits.

“Volunteers reported a stronger sense of self, less fear
of death, and greater appreciation of life. Some found they were better able to
relax, and they pushed themselves a little less. Several volunteers drank less
alcohol or noted they were more sensitive to psychedelic drugs. Others believed
with greater certainty that there are different levels of reality.”-Dr. Rick Strassman, “DMT – The Spirit
Molecule” (274)

DMT is such a powerful psychedelic that it completely melts
away the veil of this reality and transports consciousness into an entirely
other dimension occupied by everything from advice-giving telepathic rainbows
to body-snatching demonic gremlins.Whether your eyes stay open or closed, these so-called “hallucinations”
completely immerse and ensconce themselves into your consciousness taking you
out of your body and often out of this world.The effects then wear off after about 10 minutes when smoked, 30 minutes
when injected, and after 3-4 hours when made into Ayahuasca tea.

Dr. Strassman’s patients
said in the long-term their DMT experiences made them more open-minded and
laid-back, caused their thoughts and feelings to be better integrated and
overlap more, lessened their fear of death, and gave them “a more real sense
of connectedness to everything and everyone.”One of his patients named Elena said, “most
of my experiences fade with time.Not so
with DMT.Outside me, not much is
different.Inside, I rest in the comfort
of knowing my soul is eternal and my consciousness endless.”Another patient, Cleo, related how during her
DMT trip, a cascading rainbow of colors telepathically communicated with her,
telling her that she had been looking for God outside, but instead to go in,
that God was in every cell of her body: “The colors kept telling me things,
but they were telling me things so I not only heard what I was seeing, but also
felt it in my cells.I say ‘felt,’ but
it was like no other ‘felt,’ more like a knowing that was happening in my
cells. That God is in everything and that we are all connected, and that God
dances in every cell of life, and that every cell of life dances in God.I am changed. I will never be the same. To
simply say this almost seems to lessen the experience. I don't think that
anyone hearing or reading this can truly grasp what I felt, can really
understand it deeply and completely.The
euphoria goes on into eternity. And I am part of that eternity.”

Due to all the miraculous, revelatory, and other-worldly
experiences shared by his DMT subjects, Dr. Strassman dubbed dimethyltryptamine
“the spirit molecule.”The parallels
between classic mystical or “spiritual” experiences and what people experienced
with the “spirit molecule” were too similar to ignore: During both DMT trips
and mystical experiences time, space, and matter all become secondary to
consciousness.The separation between
self/non-self disappears and personal identity fades into identification with
all of existence.Past, present and
future all meld together into one timeless moment of eternity.Space is no longer here or there but
everywhere as one.There is only here
now and travel happens at the speed of thought.

“In altered states of consciousness this new perception of the world
becomes dominant and compelling.It
completely overrides the everyday illusion of Newtonian reality, where we seem
to be ‘skin-encapsulated egos’ existing in a world of separate beings and
objects.In extreme forms of
transpersonal perception we can experience ourselves as the whole biosphere of
our planet or the entire material universe.”-Stanislav Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” (88)

Further to their revelatory and spiritual experiences, many of
Dr. Strassman’s patients also reported experiencing a typical NDE while under
DMT.They felt themselves lift out of
their bodies, saw and entered tunnels of light, heard celestial music and
encountered angels or light beings, felt absolute peace and painlessness and
were reluctant to come back into their bodies.For example, one of his patients, Willow, described her experience
saying, “First I saw a tunnel or channel of light off to the right … There
was a sound like music, like a score, but unfamiliar to me, supporting the
emotional tone of the events and drawing me in … There were large beings in the
tunnel, on the right side, next to me … It was so much more real than life … I felt
strongly, ‘This is dying and this is okay’ ... I had a sense of dying, letting
go and separating, after the beings in the tunnel helped me along. … It's like
a cosmic joke. If we all knew what was waiting for us, we'd all kill ourselves.
That's why we stay in this form for so long, to figure that out.Everyone should try a high dose of DMT once …
That place is so full and so complete … when I came back into my body it was so
heavy and so confining.”

“Her consciousness
separated from her body, she moved rapidly through a tunnel, or tunnels, toward
a warm, loving, all-knowing white light. Beings helped her on the way, and some
even threatened to drag her down. Beautiful music accompanied her on the early
stages of the journey. Time and space lost all meaning. She was tempted not to
return, but realized she needed to share the incredible information she
received with this world … Her comment about everyone committing suicide if
they knew how great the ‘afterlife’ is points out another similarity between
Willow's experiences and those of ‘naturally occurring’ NDEs: That is, those
who have had an NDE do not rush off to suicide. Rather, they reside in the knowledge
that there is ‘life after death,’ and that transition loses its sting. Thus,
they are able to live life more fully, because the fear of death that drives so
many to distraction is now so much less.”-Dr. Rick Strassman, “DMT – The Spirit Molecule” (226)

As mentioned earlier many entheogens have long been known to
induce the death-rebirth experience and none are stronger than DMT.Several of Dr. Strassman’s patients reported
experiencing phenomena similar to what is outlined in the The Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead, ancient texts regarding the process of death and the
various states of consciousness the soul passes through on its afterlife
journey.Elena shared that, “more
than once the DMT sessions gave me the gift of truly subjectively knowing the
phenomenon described in ‘Introductions to the Dead’ in The Tibetan Book of the
Dead.”Another of Dr. Strassman’s
patients, Eli, said, “I relaxed and the environment began to change
noticeably.I knew I was going through
the first bardo of death, that I had been here many times before and it was
okay … I had broken out of time and space … I no longer fear death.It’s like you’re there one minute and then
you’re somewhere else, and that’s just how it is … These experiments are
helping me in my reading of the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.I know what it’s like to be totally free.”Another patient, Joseph, noted, “I think
the high dose is like death trauma.It
knocks you out of your body … This would be a good drug for people in a hospice
program or the terminally ill to have some acquaintance with.”

One of the most
incredible facts about DMT is that it is endogenous to humans and produced by
our pineal glands.The pineal gland, the
only unpaired organ in the brain is located at the geometric center of the head
between the eyebrows.This mystical
point, focused on during meditation, symbolized by the Hindu “bindi,” is what
Descartes famously called “the seat of the soul.”It is also known as the “third-eye” because
it can sense light and in certain birds, amphibians, and reptiles it even has a
lens, cornea and retina.So why is this
death-rebirth-inducing strongest psychedelic in the world produced inside our
pineal glands?What exactly is its
function?

“DMT is closely related to serotonin, the
neurotransmitter that psychedelics affect so widely. The pharmacology of DMT is
similar to that of other well-known psychedelics. It affects receptor sites for
serotonin in much the same way that LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline do. These
serotonin receptors are widespread throughout the body and can be found in
blood vessels, muscle, glands, and skin.However, the brain is where DMT exerts its most interesting
effects.There, sites rich in these
DMT-sensitive serotonin receptors are involved in mood, perception, and
thought. Although the brain denies access to most drugs and chemicals, it takes
a particular and remarkable fancy to DMT. It is not stretching the truth to
suggest that the brain ‘hungers’ for it.”-Dr. Rick Strassman, “DMT – The Spirit Molecule” (52)

In
human embryos the pineal gland becomes visible and releases its first burst of
DMT 49 days after conception.This is
also the exact moment when an embryo becomes a fetus and the gender of the baby
is determined.At birth there is another
burst of DMT, then regularly every night for the rest of our lives during REM
sleep our pineal glands excrete DMT and “trip” us out into various dream
states.Finally the last and largest DMT
burst of our lives happens at the moment of physical death.

“The human pineal
gland becomes visible in the developing fetus at seven weeks, or forty-nine
days, after conception. Of great interest to me was finding out that this is
nearly exactly the moment in which one can clearly see the first indication of
male or female gender. Before this time, the sex of the fetus is indeterminate,
or unknown. Thus, the pineal gland and the most important differentiation of
humanity, male and female gender, appear at the same time … When our individual
life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it
passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT.Later, at birth, the pineal releases more
DMT. In some of us, pineal DMT mediates the pivotal experiences of deep
meditation, psychosis, and near-death experiences.As we die, the life-force leaves the body
through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit
molecule.”-Dr. Rick Strassman, “DMT
– The Spirit Molecule” (61-9)

Traditional Chinese funerals are 49 days long.The Tibetan Book of the Dead states that it
takes 49 days for a recently deceased soul to travel from one physical body into
the next.It also contains 49 days worth
of specific passages for friends and family to read aloud to assist the
deceased in their transition.49 days
after Easter is Pentecost, the day when “tongues of fire” came into the temple
and rested upon the heads of the elders.Symbolically this could mean their crown chakras were illuminated,
pineal glands functioning, and the spirit came down unto them, just as
literally 49 days after conception, the fetal pineal gland begins functioning
and the gender is determined.Are these
49s all just a coincidence or is this mystical number the time it takes for
deceased souls to reincarnate?The
Catholic Church celebrates the “Immaculate Conception” on December 8th,
exactly 9 months before Mary’s birthday, and celebrates the Incarnation of
Christ on March 25th, exactly 9 months before Christmas.Is this why the death and conception of Jesus
can happen simultaneously?Because we
are all re-conceived (reincarnated) at the moment of our deaths and 49 days
later our soul enters the embryo through a burst of pineal DMT?

“I already knew that the Tibetan Buddhist Book of the
Dead teaches that it takes forty-nine days for the soul of the recently dead to
‘reincarnate.’That is, seven weeks from
the time of death of one person elapses until the life-force's ‘rebirth’ into
its next body. I remember very clearly, several years later, feeling the chill
along my spine when, reading my textbook of human fetal development, I
discovered this same forty-nine day interval marking two landmark events in
human embryo formation. It takes forty-nine days from conception for the first
signs of the human pineal to appear. Forty-nine days is also when the fetus
differentiates into male or female gender. Thus the soul's rebirth, the pineal,
and the sexual organs all require forty-nine days before they manifest … [Then]
as we die, if near-death experiences are any indication, there is a profound
shift in consciousness away from identification with the body.Pineal DMT makes available those particular
non-embodied contents of consciousness. All the factors previously described
combine for one final burst of DMT production: catecholamine release; decreased
breakdown and increased formation of DMT; reduced anti-DMT; and decomposing
pineal tissue. Therefore, it may be that the pineal is the most active organ in
the body at the time of death. Might we say that the life-force therefore exits
the body through the pineal?”-Dr.
Rick Strassman, “DMT – The Spirit Molecule” (81-2)

It seems very likely
that our souls enter and exit physical bodies via the pineal gland
(third-eye).Robert Monroe, Robert Bruce
and other out-of-body experts have reported the third-eye as the main contact
point where consciousness enters or exits the physical body during OBEs.Several near-death experiencers talk about
the “silver cord,” a long, bright, elastic cable of light which extends from
the third-eye of their physical body attached to their disembodied
consciousness wherever it goes.Rene
Descartes noticed he could only think one thought at a time and guessed it must
be the pineal gland, the only singular, unpaired organ in the brain responsible
for these singular, unpaired thoughts.He even went so far as to call it “the seat of the soul” which certainly
concurs with Dr. Strassman’s findings.Both
intravenous DMT injections and endogenous pineal DMT conclusively cause
out-of-body near-death experiences and play a key role in the birth-death
process.

“While the release of neuroprotective compounds near death
certainly is a useful response, the psychedelic side effects are not as
obviously beneficial. We must therefore wonder, are these spiritual properties
a coincidence, or do they have a purpose?I suggest that near-death chemicals released by the brain are
psychedelic for this reason: They must be. It is similar to asking why there is
silicon in computer chips. Silicon works. It does the job. Near-death brain
products are psychedelic because those are the properties consciousness
requires at that time.Psychedelic
compounds released near death mediate consciousness exiting the body. This is
their function and this is what they do. DMT is a spirit molecule, just as
silicon is a chip molecule. Rather than just causing the mind to feel as if it
were leaving the body, DMT release is the means by which the mind senses the
departure of the life-force from it, the content of consciousness as it leaves
the body.”-Dr. Rick Strassman, “DMT
– The Spirit Molecule” (326)

“Activation and opening of the transpersonal area in the
unconscious of dying individuals can have far-reaching consequences for their
concepts of death, their attitudes toward the situation they are facing, and
their abilities to accept physical mortality … Those who see themselves as an
insignificant and impermanent speck of dust in an immense universe become open
to the possibility that the dimensions of their own beings are commensurate
with the macrocosm and microcosm. Consciousness here appears as a primary
characteristic of existence, preceding matter and supraordinated to it, rather
than being a product of physiological processes in the brain. It seems to be
quite plausible that consciousness and awareness are essentially independent of
the gross matter of the body and brain, and will continue beyond the point of
physical demise. This alternative is experienced in a way that is at least as
complex, vivid, and self-evident as the perception of reality in usual states
of consciousness. The transcendental impact of these experiences is usually stronger
in those individuals who, prior to entering the transpersonal realms, went
through the experience of ego death and rebirth. The memory that consciousness
emerged intact from this seemingly final annihilation constitutes a powerful
emotional and cognitive model for understanding the process of actual death.”-Stanislav
Grof and Joan Halifax, “Human Encounter with Death” (56-7)

Sunday, June 8, 2014

What is the perfect way to fight?Is there a “perfect
way” to fight or is every martial art, every system and approach just a haphazard
shot in the dark with no objective, empirical, measurable advantage?The answer is that there IS absolutely a
perfect way to fight and win every opponent, but the difficulty and the beauty
is that perfect way is not something set in stone, but a fluid interplay
between each fighter’s strengths and weaknesses.The perfect way to fight always completely
depends on the person(s) you are fighting and constantly changes based on what
they are doing, how they are attacking, defending, and countering, whether
there is one, two, or ten opponents, whether they’re striking, grappling, or
parrying, whether they’re using edged, blunt or projectile weapons, depending
on their height, weight, build, reach, and a host of other factors, the
“perfect way” to fight is by training and developing the skills and tools
necessary to read, react and adapt to each opponent’s constantly shifting
weaknesses and exploiting them in real-time.

In this and many other ways fighting is like the game of
Chess: Once you make your move, there is no turning back.You are responsible for every mistake, and
the only way out is forward.The
stronger player does not always win, because even the strongest players have weaknesses,
but a clear hierarchy of ability exists, and the way to succeed is by positioning
yourself so as to best exploit the weaknesses of your opponent then attacking
as mistakes and imbalances surface.Unlike
dice or card games, there is no element of “luck” or “chance” in games like Chess,
Checkers or Othello; these games always completely depend only upon the minds
and moves of the two opponentsSimilarly
in fighting there really is no element of luck or chance involved. The outcome
of a fight or Chess match will always depend on who better trained and
conditioned themselves beforehand then better exploited and executed their
opponent’s weaknesses in the moment.

The average Chess player can only handle playing one opponent
at a time, just like the average person could only handle fighting one opponent
at a time, but through diligent practice Chess grandmasters and martial
grandmasters are able to successfully defeat several opponents simultaneously.Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen have been
known to play and win up to 10 games against 10 different opponents
simultaneously while blindfolded!Ip
Man, Bruce Lee’s Wing Chun teacher, was also said to have successfully defeated
several opponents simultaneously while blindfolded!

Just having martial “knowledge” is not enough though, your
body must be trained and conditioned kinesthetically so muscle-memory reacts
perfectly and precisely to the opponent.Just having chess “knowledge” is also not enough, you cannot simply
memorize every opening, play through every grandmaster game, read every theory
book and suddenly be able to win every opponent.The knowledge and skill-sets, the training
and pre-game preparedness is only part of it, the gamer/fighter must also have
perfect mindfulness and presence in the moment to be able to use the knowledge
and training then adapt it in real-time to suit the adversary in front of them.So there is a perfect way to fight, just like
there is a perfect way to play Chess, but it’s not static and consistent, it
always completely depends on the opponent and our interplay with their weaknesses
in the moment.

Both fighters
and Chess players will train before a tournament, watching videos or studying
games of their opponents looking to find trends and weaknesses.By noticing trends, even ones usually seen as
“strengths,” they can become weaknesses through overuse.For instance a fighter with a powerful
overhand right he always uses to knock people out is seen as his “strength,”
but if his opponent knows ahead of time about his reliance on this attack, even
such so-called “strengths” can quickly become Achilles’ tendons to be cut.The opponent can train to always slip
outside, to attack and disable the right arm/hand, or to shoot inside
nullifying the range.Similarly if a
chess player knows trends in his opponent’s games, such as always accepting
gambits, never trading down in a sacrifice, castling late, bringing the Queen
out early etc. he can exploit those trends.

A
fighter’s vulnerabilities are constantly changing based on their
position/structure making it like a ballroom dance where the woman, the
receptive one, reacting to the man’s lead, sensing, feeling her opponent’s
movements and flowing with them, actually maintains positional advantage while
the aggressive, overly forceful fighter leaves himself exposed.So by purposely assuming the yin, receptive role
of the woman, you gain a distinct advantage.This is the reason fighters always jockey back and forth in and out of
the pocket range-finding before committing to an attack,because the person who under or over-commits
during these crucial milliseconds opens themselves up to devastating
counter-blows.If you commit to a
strike, takedown, or whatever type of attack, you are opening yourself to
counter-attack.The smarter fighting
philosophy is to be patient, feigning while giving consistent forward pressure
along the centerline until the opponent shows an under or over-commitment, then
exploding to exploit the hole formed.In
Chess strategy it is the same; position your pieces to control the center,
allow the opponent to initiate exchanges, look for imbalances, weak squares or
undefended pieces, then attack and prey upon the opponent’s problem areas.

The
game of Othello also beautifully demonstrates this advantage of yin over
yang.The average Othello player will
quickly, aggressively attempt to turn as many pieces to their side as possible,
and continue with this one-dimensional yang strategy until they run out of
moves, only to have the opponent flip all their pieces back at the end.Similarly the average fighter will
aggressively attempt to attack and finish their opponent as quickly and
violently as possible only to gas-out and open themselves up to counter-attacks.The highest level Othello players, however,
know that the more pieces you have in the beginning, the less potential moves
you have later, and the more pieces of yours on the board, the more pieces your
opponent can steal!The highest level
fighters know if you over-commit to any attack too early and you are fighting a
skilled, adaptive opponent, the over-committed attack, no matter how powerful,
will soon become your weakness.

The
best Othello players play passively, keeping the fewest amount of their pieces
on the board at the beginning so as to maintain positional advantage by having
the most potential moves.By having the
most potential moves, they are easier able to acquire and secure the crucial
border and corner squares.Once a corner
square has been acquired, you claim all pieces horizontal, vertical and
diagonal to that corner and they cannot be turned back!Similarly, in fighting, the best fighters
will not rush in and over-commit to some attack without first bridging along
the centerline, sensing and seeing how the opponent reacts, then exploiting any
under or over-commitments in their reaction.Pinning your opponent against a wall, fence, car or into a corner is also
a highly advantageous move difficult to reverse, just like claiming border and
corner pieces in Othello.

This is the esoteric advantage yin will always have over
yang.Since yang seems weaker, its
strength is deceptive.Like water, you
must be fluid, receptive, adaptive and flow around your opponent’s obstacles,
remaining calm, relaxed and flexible both mentally and physically until the
opponent’s vulnerabilities present themselves.This is not to say that yang has no place, that women are better
fighters, or anything of that sort.A
moment of yang strength is ultimately what wins the fight, and men are in general
far superior fighters to women.Some
arts like Muay Thai, Wrestling, or Sumo, however, are overly yang whereas
others like Tai Chi, Wu Shu, and even many lineages of Wing Chun are far too “yin,”
doing nothing but Chi Sao (sticky hands) and form-work, never training body-conditioning,
padwork or sparring.This is just as
much a deficiency as the over-aggressive, blunt-headed wrestler type who simply
looks to impose his will no matter how well he is defended/countered by his
opponent.

One of the main principles in Wing Chun is the centerline
concept, where fighters train to attack, defend and dominate along the
centerline.In Chess strategy,
dominating and controlling the center is a key positional advantage during the
opening.Where many average Wing Chun
practitioners and many average Chess players fall short is when they don’t
train to switch it up during the middle and endgame.Many traditional Wing Chun schools train ONLY
straight-line attacks and ONLY ever attack along the centerline.For instance they will always enter with the
same straight chain punch/push kick flurry and no matter how well the opponent
defends, circles outside and counters, they still keep steamrolling impotently
forward becoming an increasingly easier target to pick apart.In Chess, the opponent’s King begins in the
center, but as the game progresses, due to castling or other moves, the King
will often be situated at either end and not in the center.Once your opponent castles it becomes obvious
whether a King’s side, Queen’s side or central attack will best suit the game
and the adept player must adapt in real-time.Similarly an adept Wing Chun practitioner must always bridge (make
contact) with the opponent along the centerline, but then depending on what
they do next when bridged, other curved or non-centerline attacks may become
much better suited than the straight centerline approach.

In the entry into the pocket during a fight, just like in
the entry during the opening of a chess game, it has been proven that
dominating and controlling the centerline is key. You will never see a Chess
Grandmaster doing a rook’s pawn opening and you will never see a Wing Chun
Grandmaster doing a curved or non-centerline entry.To do a rook’s pawn opening or to enter the
pocket with a curved attack is to offer up the crucial advantage of direct centerline
control to your opponent for free.If
you’re playing/fighting an amateur you may recover from such a blunder, but
against a formidable opponent you will not and find that giving away the
centerline is a consistently losing strategy.In Chess this has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt, though in
martial philosophy, the crucial importance of centerline control and
straight-attack entries has not yet gained popular approval or understanding
outside of Wing Chun.

The basic idea of straight-line entries and centerline
control is that the most efficient path between two points is a straight
line.If you throw a right jab, while
your opponent throws a right hook, your jab will land first, the blow surprises
and decreases the power of your opponent’s strike, and the position of your jab
effectively blocks the incoming hook.In
the case of a kick, imagine a curved Muay Thai roundhouse kick or a Taekwondo
spinning kick versus a straight Wing Chun stomp kick, snap kick or side
kick.Like the hook punch, the
roundhouse, or any spinning circular attack is telegraphed, slower to arrive at
the target, and completely exposes the person attacking by opening their guard
wide.Curved attacks are also
ineffective until they arrive at full-extension to their target whereas
straight attacks are effective even before full-extension.For example if you simply step forward when
the opponent initiates a spinning heel kick you completely neutralize the
technique because his dangerous heel extends well-behind you.If, instead, you step forward into a straight
Wing Chun stop kick to the stomach, the kick will still land, maybe at the shin,
the knee, the groin or the stomach depending on how close the opponent is when
you make contact, but no matter where contact is made, damage will still be
done and their forward movement will be thwarted.Straight kicks are simply less risky, more
direct, efficient, and devastating.Therefore,
as a general rule, fast straight-attack entries are far superior to curved,
circular or angular attacks.Once the
straight-attack entry has been made along the centerline, THEN the fighter can
and should mix various non-linear attacks, based on the tactile information
received in the moment as to which combinations and movements will continue to
land and defeat the opponent.

In popular MMA cage-fighting like UFC, the importance of
centerline control is explicitly obvious but the philosophy is often
overlooked.Fighters like Jon Jones and
Anderson Silva use their long limbs extending forward, usually in a triangle,
like the Wing Chun ready stance, not under or over-committing, shooting
straight jabs and straight kicks along the opponent’s centerline.Then when into clinch / chi sao range, they
start unleashing various creative circular and non-centerline attacks like
elbows, knees, body shots, uppercuts and takedowns based on the tactile and
sensory information they’re receiving in the moment, adapting every second to
attack the most vulnerable targets with their most powerful weapons.Notice they do not and could not simply chain
punch forward and win every opponent as some traditional Wing Chun schools
would have you think!

In Chess you always want to be either developing your pieces
into better positions, taking your opponents pieces, or directly attacking
their King.Likewise in fighting you
should always be moving to gain positional advantage, striking to injure the
opponent’s limbs/body, or directly attacking their face/neck.Blood or air chokes, eye gouges, palm
strikes, overhands and other fight-stopping strikes to the face are like
checkmates.All other attacks like
arm-bars, toe-holds, leg-locks, takedowns, guntings, etc. are analogous to
capturing pawns, knights, bishops, rooks and queens.

Bobby Fischer said of Chess, “Tactics flow from a superior position.”In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu they have the saying
“position before submission” meaning it is important to acquire and maintain
the correct body position and defensive structure before attempting the
finishing offensive submission.If you
rush into a submission hold without first securing the necessary and
advantageous position, it is likely that the opponent will escape, sweep, and
turn the tables on your weak attempt.The skilled grappler will instead first secure a good full, side, back
mount or guard, then and only then attempt any submissions.Likewise in Chess, the average player might
bring their Queen out early and try any number of one/two piece fast mates, but
these will never work against a seasoned player and will only leave you with
inferior positioning going into the midgame.

In Chess one popular strategy, known as a “gambit,” is
offering a piece as a sacrifice in order to attain better position.In fighting, various “gambits” are also used
constantly and effectively.For example
feigning when establishing a jab and straight kicks in and out of the pocket,
mixing fully-extended power-shots with lackadaisical or abrupt stinted shots, like
a gambit helps to gain control of the center, lures the opponent into a false
sense of security, and if they “accept the sacrifice” (i.e. block the feign, or
not block actual strikes because of good feigning) it puts them in a more
precarious position.Another example of
a fighting gambit is the Wing Chun Chum Kiu or “bridge seeking.”Wing Chun hands like Man Sao (Asking Hands) extend
out along the centerline in a tentative manner like an insect’s antennae
looking to bridge with the opponent’s limbs so our sticky hands sensitivity can
then manipulate their structure by maintaining perpetual flowing contact and
defense.The asking hand antennae are
offered up like pawn gambits to lure the opponent into playing into our web of sticky
hands training!

Another key tactic in Chess is using pieces in combination
to attack.Trying to checkmate your
opponent using a single piece, even your strongest piece, the Queen, is
futile.She cannot capture the opponent’s
King by herself and must be aided by at least one other piece (from your army
or theirs!) to prevent his escape.Similarly in fighting, “one-trick ponies,” or “one-hit wonders” are
easily defeated.Fighters who fail to
attack in combination or rely solely on one preferred technique become
transparent and impotent.Wing Chun
Kung-Fu boasts having the fastest combination punches in the world known as the
“chain punch,” with many practitioners clocked at an amazing 10 punches per second!One standard Wing Chun attack combines the
repeated 1-2-1-2-1-2 chain punch with a forward thrusting stomp or snap kick
3-4-3-4-3-4 to the opponent’s knees and groin, so at any moment you have
three weapons (2 arms and a leg) attacking the vulnerable face, groin and knees
in rapid-fire combination.And since
they are all straight, centerline attacks your three offensive weapons all
double as defensive barriers effectively blocking many standard counter-strikes
in the process.

Wing Chun also has a concept called “the three gates,” which
is very similar to Chess.The idea is that
your head/neck is the King and your arms extended forward in the Wing Chun
triangle ready-stance comprises the three gates of your castle.The first gate is the hinge of your wrists,
the second gate the hinge of your elbows, and the third gate is your back Wu
Sao (guard hand) resting at your chin.The
first wrist gate is purposely left wide open to bait the opponent like a Trojan
horse; When they pressure in, our Huen Sao (circling hand) allows them through
then Fook Sao (controlling hand) quickly closes and locks the gate shut behind
keeping them stuck to our well-developed sticky hands.The second gate is solid and always remains
shut; Known as the Wing Chun Immovable Elbow, the second gate’s strongest
position is a fist and a half distance from the torso held forward at a 135
degree angle.When pressure is placed
upon the second gate we will sooner give up footwork position than allow the
immovable elbow gate to collapse.If the
opponent manages to get behind/outside our elbow, the third gate guard hand
must quickly perform Lap Sao (pulling hand), bringing the opponent back out to
the first gate.

In Chess, the first gate often offered as gambits / sacrifices
in order to gain position are the pawns.The second gate used to pressure in are the knights, bishops and
rooks.The third gate just before reaching
the King is the Queen, and both in Wing Chun and Chess, if you bring the Queen
(Wu Sao Hand) forward too quickly it can spell disaster.For example in the popular Wing Chun “Bong
Sao-Lap Sao” drill students are taught to always defend only with the lead arm
leaving the Wu Sao guard hand back by the chin bringing it forward only if/when
the second gate has been passed.In
Chess strategy students are taught always to develop the minor pieces onto
strong outposts before bringing the Queen forward.If the Queen comes out too early she can be
chased around the board, giving the opponent positional advantage, and
ultimately could be cornered and captured.Likewise if the Wu Sao hand comes forward to block or Lap Sao too early
it can be passed by a skilled opponent and they will have direct, unfettered
access to your King/Head.

So
what is the perfect way to train so as to fight perfect Chess in the
moment?How can one best train to read,
react, and adapt to each opponent’s constantly shifting weaknesses and exploit
them in real-time?First, and foremost
you must condition your mind and body in a multitude of ways to prepare for the
final moment of confrontation.Like a
good Chess student must play thousands of games, memorize thousands of
openings/variations, play through thousands of Grandmaster games, and solve
thousands of Chess problems before they can compete. You also must do thousands
of punches, kicks, elbows, knees, locks, takedowns, chokes, breaks,
submissions, and escapes, you must learn proper form, structure, movement,
technique, and philosophy, practice sparring, grappling, shadow boxing, chi sao
and chi gerk, use punching bags, focus pads, wall bags, and wooden
dummies,working always to increase speed, power, accuracy, technique, and
non-telegraphy, your ligaments, tendons, muscles and skin must become flexible,
strong, loose, and relaxed, the nerve-endings on your shins and arms must
become numb, your wrists must become laterally strong, your knuckles calloused,
your abdominals and other muscles tough and hard, your mind must be still and
responsive, your body completely relaxed before and after every strike, you
should even practice deep abdominal breathing and short exasperated breathing
to improve stamina, control heart-rate and adrenaline release, increase the
time you can be choked, and decrease the chance of having the wind knocked out
of you.

Then
when the time comes to fight, your mind should be empty and completely present,
any strategy or tactics consciously employed will be over-committed, unreceptive,
and non-adaptive so you must completely rely on subconscious instinct and
muscle-memory.Your eyes should be
trained on the opponent’s sternum so peripheral vision can fully watch all
their limbs.Your stance should remain
fluid and light, constantly moving but able to solidify and immediately plant
roots if the opponent shoots.Your guard
should be relaxed and moving slightly, just enough to distract and feign, but
not enough to open yourself up. Bobby
Fischer, the most renowned Chess player of all time said, “Chess is a matter of
delicate judgment knowing when to punch and how to duck.It is war over the board.The object is to crush the opponent’s
mind.Concentrate on material
gains.Whatever your opponent gives, you
take, unless you see good reason not to.Your body has to be in top condition.Your Chess deteriorates as your body dies.You can’t separate body from mind.You have to have the fighting spirit.”And perhaps the most famous Wing Chun
practitioner ever, Bruce Lee, said it best: “Empty your mind, be formless,
shapeless, like water.Now you put water
into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle it becomes the
bottle, you put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot.Now water can flow or it can crash.Be water my friend.”